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Wetzel: Guild socialism as a precursor to partcipipatory economics
Blog Post, February, 01 2008
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
In the World War 1 era ideas of workers managing industry had gained a certain popularity in the labor movement in the US and Britain. Thinkers like G.D.H. Cole and R.H. Tawney in England responded to this by developing a vision of a decentralized...
Mcgehee: Exxon earnings soar on record oil prices
Blog Post, February, 01 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Seriously, this is extortion!
Albert: Neoclassical Micro And Macro Economics--Science Or Silliness?
Blog Post, January, 30 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Debunking neoclassical economics...
Mcgehee: Welfare, Schmelfare!
Blog Post, January, 30 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
safety nets and handouts. corporations need them and so do the working class!
Spannos: Confessions of a High School Drop Out
Blog Post, January, 26 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
My “collage education”...
Podur: Alfie Kohn, rewards... and parecon
Blog Post, August, 01 2007
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Some thoughts on alternative education author Alfie Kohn today. I started with his book, "Punished by Rewards", which discusses why rewards (grades, gold stars, salary bonuses or any other kind of bribes) are not good things - not in workplaces, n...
Street: Loss, Class, Culpability, and Empire: Some Political and Psychological Reflections
Blog Post, July, 20 2007
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I struggle with how to deal with United States military families' participation in the racist imperial oil occupation of Iraq. Below I have pasted in a recent effort (how successful I have no idea) of mine to find a reasonable perspective -- ...
Szczepanczyk: An audacious proposal to advance a participatory economy: Start one
Blog Post, June, 23 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
I had an idea for a tactic to proceed our economy. Why not just go ahead and start a participatory economy? Some might react by saying "We already have projects like Z Magazine and South End Press which already are starting". I know that, but...
Chomsky: Polls, Free Markets & Vietnam
Blog Post, May, 01 2007
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Below is Noam Chomsky's response to a question in the Z Sustainer chat board where Noam hosts a forum.
Szczepanczyk: The Chicago Parecon Debate of February 10, 2007 is now online
Blog Post, February, 26 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
This is just a quick announcement. The complete audio of the Feb. 10 Chicago Parecon debate at the offices of In These Times, and hosted by the Open University of the Left, is now online. The audio has been divided into six MP3 files, each...
Szczepanczyk: The Chicago Parecon Debate of February 10, 2007: My thoughts
Blog Post, February, 18 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
(Note: The opinions expressed in what's to follow are solely those of its author, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, and do not necessarily reflect those of members of CAPES -- the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society -- nor of the organization as a w...
Podur: The second phase of Plan Colombia
Blog Post, February, 01 2007
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
So, we've had seven years of Plan Colombia which was initiated, famously, with 1.3 billion from the US and an additional 4-5 billion of Colombians' money. The money paid for helicopters, mainly, and other military hardware and support to the Colom...
Podur: The second phase of Plan Colombia
Blog Post, February, 01 2007
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
So, we've had seven years of Plan Colombia which was initiated, famously, with 1.3 billion from the US and an additional 4-5 billion of Colombians' money. The money paid for helicopters, mainly, and other military hardware and support to the Colom...
Street: Climate Change and Corporate Media
Blog Post, December, 29 2006
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I opened my last Empire and Inequality Report (Issue # 5, titled "Missions Accomplished") by questioning liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich's claim that the war in/on Iraq is the “greatest tragedy of our age.” Operation Iraqi ...
Szczepanczyk: Review of the book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" by Joel Bakan
Blog Post, December, 18 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
(Please note that this review is about the book The Corporation, the companion to the film of the same name, and not the fiim itself.) I find myself with mixed feelings about The Corporation: the book by Joel Bakan. On the one hand, I rank the...
Szczepanczyk: On the death of Milton Friedman
Blog Post, November, 16 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
I was broadcasting my radio show in Chicago this afternoon when I heard that neoliberal economist Milton Friedman died this afternoon at age 94. Indeed, my show airs on the University of Chicago's own radio station, on the very campus where Fried...
Street: Kerry's Comment and the Democrats' Class Problem
Blog Post, November, 02 2006
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
At some point during the 2004 presidential (s)election, the satirical newspaper "The Onion" did a funny piece in which John Kerry gave a campaign speech to blue-collar workers from the deck of a rolling yacht. The sailing vessel was dock...
Albert: Why Parecon?
Blog Post, September, 14 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...
Szczepanczyk: Casinos in Spirit: The World Trade Organization and The World Series of Poker
Blog Post, July, 30 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
In this post, I'd like to draw some comparisons between contemporary political economy and competitive poker. I think it's useful to see political economy through the lens of poker, since (as I'll explain further) I think there's an extraordinary...
Street: Katie ("I Think Navy SEALs Rock") Couric, CBS, and the Contempt of the Ruling Class
Blog Post, May, 31 2006
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
At the risk of sounding overly melodramatic about something that probably strikes most ZNet readers as a rather trivial matter, I think that the movement of Katie Couriic from co-host of NBC's morning "Today Show" to the sole anchor ...
